"Tell
him not to feel triste. He can make himself comfortable here; he
can leave his saddle in one place, his blanket in another, and his pistol
in another, nothing will be lost; this is my Camp; I command it."

Tom
Jeffords outlived his friend Cochise by 40 years and in the years following
the closure of Cochise's reservation by the U.S. government (1876) he returned
to the site of the peace treaty several times, sharing his story with a
select few and revealing locations to those he felt would properly respect
that knowledge.

It has been common knowledge for 130+ years that the campsite held by Cochise's
band during the peace talks was on the west side of the Dragoon Mountains,
somewhere near the entrance to what is now called West Stronghold Canyon.
A photograph in the archives of the Arizona Historical Society, taken in
1913, purports to show the "location of the peace treaty". The photographer
was a historian named Robert Forbes, who had been shown the spot by local
rancher Billy Fourr, a contemporary of Thomas Jeffords. It is assumed
that it was Jeffords who had pointed out the location to Fourr. This
photo was featured in Ed Sweeney's important historical work, "Making Peace
with Cochise" (1997, University of Oklahoma Press - click
here to order).